Te Tari Pūreke proactively released information as part of its commitment to openness and transparency, including Cabinet papers, firearms data, and surveys.

Latest firearms data

This section contains firearms regulatory information to help people better understand features of the licence holder community, and aspects of the performance of New Zealand’s firearms regulatory framework. 

Below, you can expand the options for the Firearms Public Dashboard, the Firearms Information Summary Report (Monthly), and the Supplementary Firearms Data Report to understand the type of information you will find in the following documents.

The Firearms Public Dashboard

  • The dashboard contains a summary of:
    - Individual licence holders (by Police District)
    - Active firearms endorsements
    - The Firearms Registry uptake
    - Firearms licence applications completed (in the last month)
    - Suspensions and revocations processed (in the last month), and
    - Demographics of firearms licence holders (Age, gender, and ethnicity).

Firearms Information Summary Report (Monthly)

This contains:
•    Licences by type                  
•    Endorsements by type
•    Licence holders - current age                                
•    Licence holders - gender                
•    Licence holders - ethnicity             
•    Licences by Police District              
•    Individual licence endorsements by Police District                    
•    Licence revocations by financial year                                                      
•    Licence suspensions by financial year                                                                
•    Licences issued by financial year                                     
•    Licences in progress, and                       
•    Endorsements in progress.

Supplementary Firearms Data Report

This contains:
•    Number of Health Practitioner Reports of concern
•    Reasons for firearms licence refusals
•    Reasons for firearms licence suspensions
•    Reasons for firearms licence revocations
•    Firearms registered – by type (e.g. rifle, shotgun, pistol, other)
•    Firearms registered – by classification (e.g. non-prohibited, pistol, restricted, etc.)
•    Registry call data 
          o    Average speed to answer
          o    Average wait time
          o    Total answered calls
          o    Total offered calls
          o    Total abandoned calls
•    Firearms Safety Courses delivered (and attendance)
•    Firearms Safety Courses - locations courses delivered
•    Firearms Safety Courses - participant survey results

2026 data

MARCH

Firearms Public Dashboard - March 2026.pdf
(pdf 563.28 KB)
Firearms Information Summary Report - March 2026.xlsx
(xlsx 40.52 KB)
Supplementary Firearms Data - March 2026.xlsx
(xlsx 41.72 KB)

FEBRUARY

Firearms Public Dashboard - February 2026.pdf
(pdf 561.07 KB)
Firearms Information Summary Report - February 2026.xlsx
(xlsx 40.22 KB)
Supplementary Firearms Data - February 2026
 (xlsx 32.49 KB)
Supplementary Firearms Data - February 2026_0.xlsx
(xlsx 32.49 KB)

JANUARY

Firearms Public Dashboard - January 2026.pdf
(pdf 563.66 KB)
Firearms Information Summary Report - February 2026.xlsx
(xlsx 40.22 KB)

Data previous years

2025

2024

2023

2022

Firearms trust and confidence survey

This section contains the trust and confidence survey results that may be of interest to the general public and the wider firearms community.

2024

2022

Cabinet papers and related material

This section contains proactively released cabinet papers, discussion documents and other material that may be of interest to the wider firearms community.

2023

2022

2021 and earlier

For firearms-related proactive release papers from 2021 or prior, visit the Police website:
Publications and statistics | New Zealand Police

Correspondence and other documents

2024

Last updated
5 March 2026

 

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